lakhn.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. vi. 406 Euery Laches containeth a hundred thousand yeares.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lvii. 225 There was slain..sixteen Laquesaas of men, each of which an hundred thousand.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 104 With Lamps to the Number of two or three Lacques, which is so many Hundred thousand on our Account.

1800 S. Turner Acct. Embassy Court Teshoo Lama App. 464 The troops of that country [sc. Hindostan] were upwards of three lacks of horsemen.

1804 J. R. Holkar in Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) IV. 107 Calamities would fall on lacs of human beings.

1820 T. Maurice Hist. Hindostan I. i. iv. 126 Four Yugs, or forty-three lacks and twenty thousand years.

1881 J. Lubbock in Nature No. 618. 407 The Laccadives..meaning literally the ‘lac of islands’.

1964 E. Huxley Back Street New Worlds x. 100 Plenty of Pakistanis are here already—the High Commissioner's estimate is one lakh, or 100,000.

1969 National Herald (New Delhi) 29 July 6/5 The labour acts which relate to factories, mines, plantation, transport, shops and establishments, wages, safety and welfare, industrial relations and protection of children are expected to benefit lakhs of workers and wage-earners in the state.

1969 Hindu (Madras) 3 Aug. 6/4 The area worst hit by the recent floods in the Brahmaputra Valley is the Sibsagar district where about two lakhs of people have been affected, with thousands rendered homeless.

1615 T. Coryate Let. in Crudities (1776) III. sig. L6 The whole Present was worth ten of their Leakes, as they call them; a Leak being ten thousand pound sterling.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iii. 216 Euery Crou is an hundred Leckes, and euery Leck is an hundred thousand Rupiæ.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. i. ix. 18 Great sums of money are reckoned by Leks, Crouls.

1692 in J. T. Wheeler Madras in Olden Time (1861) I. 262 A lak of Pagodas.

1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 145 Whilst Patriots of presented lacks complain, And Courtiers brib'ry to excess arraign.

1802 J. Wolcot Great Cry & Little Wool in Wks. (1812) V. 175 The lacks are not easily got Nor honestly made in a hurry.

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xliii Making rather too free with jaghires, lakhs, gold mohurs.

1871 S. Mateer Travancore 72 The annual revenue of the Travancore State amounts..to about forty lacs of rupees.

1955 Times 3 Aug. 2/6 Detailed prospecting, which has so far cost 19·80 lakhs of rupees, led to the location of iron ore in Kalabagh and its suburbs in the Punjab.

1971 Weekend (Ceylon) 12 Sept. 3/2 The project would cost four lakhs of rupees.

1972 Times of India 28 Nov. 5/3 The parcel actually contained 900 Japanese-made wrist watches worth Rs. 2 lakhs.

1975 Bangladesh Times 18 July 1/3 The Finance Minister said that the Government had already increased the ceiling of private investment for setting up industries from Tk 25 lakh to Taka three crore.

2011 Times of India (Nexis) 30 Jan. Over 100 Indian CEOs, who have spent anywhere between $50,000 (over Rs 22 lakh) and $1 million (Rs 4.5 crore) to attend the event.